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What makes you think that the 'open' camp has missed the current big thing - privacy and security? It can only be that you drank the Kool Aid Apple provided. Se
by Yetanfou 8y ago
What makes you think that the 'open' camp has missed the current big thing - privacy and security? It can only be that you drank the Kool Aid Apple provided. Security-wise the 'open' camp - which includes things like Linux, *BSD and AOSP (which can be called 'Android' as long as you keep in mind not to include the Google-proprietary bits) has a better track record than Apple, privacy-wise there is no comparison. I put way more trust in those than I do in Apple as that is, after all, a commercial enterprise with a single goal.
- simonh 8y agoThe cognitive dissonance in this post is giving me a headache. You don’t get to be the gatekeeper of what constitutes an open AOSP phone or anything else. If you say AOSP has a better track record than Apple in terms of privacy and security, on what basis do you get to say “except all the AOSP phones with Google services and misc crapware and insecure hacks slapped on by their no name Chinese OEMs?” Those are open too. How does that exception serve the hundreds of millions of people walking around with old unpatched ‘open’ phones full of insecure junk-ware and manufacturer hacks?
- Yetanfou 8y agoThe 'open camp' has a better track record than Apple, not 'AOSP'. No cognitive dissonance here, just facts. By the way, if you really want to experience cognitive dissonance contemplate the fact that those same 'Chinese OEMs' produce Apple hardware. Just look at the back of nearly anything branded with that apple, it'll say 'designed in California, made in China' or something similar. Do you still trust that iPhone in your pocket knowing that it was made on the other side of the Great Firewall?
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- simonh 8y agoWow. I rest my case.